World-News

http://lewrockwell.com/celente/celente79.1.html

Hard Questions About Hard Times
http://lewrockwell.com/casey/casey96.1.html

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Watchdog: Regulators Bowed to Banks on Bailout

Federal regulators bowed to pressure from big banks seeking a quick exit from the financial bailout program and did not uniformly apply the government s own conditions set for repaying the taxpayer funds, a new watchdog report says.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44726626/ns/business-us_business/


From Information Clearing House

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Banks Successfully Lobbied for Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules so They Could Pay Bonuses

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: 'As a new report from the Special Inspector General for TARP shows, even these restrictions were too much for some of the nation's biggest banks - including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PNC - who lobbied for easier payback requirements so that they could be freed from restrictions on paying bonuses.'

http://www.truth-out.org/banks-successfully-lobbied-weaker-bailout-repayment-rules-so-they-could-pay-bonuses/1317402018



Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors

Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against widespread global uncertainty? The answer, according to Bill Murphy s newsletter LeMetropoleCafe.com, is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling.... The stock market has been plagued by these speculative attacks ever since the four-year industry-wide bear raid called the Great Depression, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was reduced to 10 percent of its former value.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sheared-shorts-how-short-sellers-fleece-investors/1317326458

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The Military-Entertainment Complex
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/the-military-entertainment-complex.html



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Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: 'The recent dramatic expansion of intelligence collection at the federal, state and local level raises profound civil liberties concerns regarding freedoms and protections we have long taken for granted. If people generally appear unaware of 'change in the air,' a large part of the reason is the unparalleled resort to secrecy used by the government to keep its actions from public scrutiny. According to the new American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report, 'Drastic Measures Required,' under President Obama (who had vowed to create 'an unprecedented level of openness in Government' when he first took office), there were no fewer than 76,795,945 decisions made to classify information in 2010 - eight times the number made in 2001."

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- wage Manufacturing

By Andre Damon

With the full backing of the Obama administration, US and foreign-based corporations are exploiting levels of mass unemployment and poverty not seen since the Great Depression in order to transform the US into a cheap labor platform in direct competition with Mexico, China and other low-wage countries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29253.htm



'Rebellion Has Arrived In America'

By Mike Krieger

I will be the first to admit that I faded the whole idea of this 'Occupy Wall Street' protest. I had already seen several failed attempts at protest in NYC come and go and I just sadly assumed the spirit of that once great city had died forever. I am extraordinarily happy to report that I was wrong.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29257.htm



New Pepper-spray Video Emerges

By Robert Mackey and Karen McVeigh

NYPD officer Anthony Bologna faces two investigations as video emerges of a second pepper-spray incident.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29259.htm



Occupy Wall Street: Beyond Bologna

By Linh Dinh
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29258.htm



Bernanke: Unemployment Poses 'National Crisis'

'We have had close to 10 percent unemployment now for a number of years and, of the people who are unemployed, about 45 percent have been unemployed for six months or more. This is unheard of.'

http://goo.gl/kQ3vE



The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to the nation s unemployment rate as a 'national crisis,' to finally hear those words from the man George W. Bush and Barack Obama both appointed to lead us out of the great recession is a bracing reminder of how markedly the policies of both those presidents have failed.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_men_we_trusted_to_lead_us_20110928/



Wall Street protesters in for the long haul

A standoff near Wall Street between protesters opposed to what they say is corporate greed and police may drag on into winter, with a march on police headquarters the likely next test of whether tensions escalate.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1061898--wall-street-protesters-in-for-the-long-haul


From Information Clearing House

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A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With The Wall Street Protesters http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9

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Unions Head to Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/09/29-0

Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/29-6

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Is the US a police state?

CounterPunch
by John Grant

09/29/11

It was a peaceful demonstration against Wall Street greed. At least it started out that way. All evidence suggests it was, then, sent careening into chaos by the police strong-arming of young protesters who had done nothing but express their views in public...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/29/is-the-us-a-police-state/



Occupy Wall Street & New Bottom Line: Taking back the American Dream

Our Future Blog
by Tracy Van Slyke

09/29/11

In its second week, hundreds of people have taken over Liberty Square as part of Occupy Wall Street. What started as a loosely organized protest against the corrupting impact that Wall Street and big financial institutions have had on our democracy seems to be growing into something larger. ... As the Occupy Wall Street protestors lift up the pain that young Americans are experiencing and take it directly to the heart of our country s corrupted financial system, other movements composed of homeowners, the jobless, faith leaders and the growing ranks of the poor are doing the same...

http://tinyurl.com/6ej7akr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The day Wall Street took over the White House
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/us/the-day-wall-street-took-over-the-white-house.html

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EU: People vs Banks
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_people_vs_banks/?cl=1297943514&v=10538

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The Federal Reserve Is Playing Defense
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1042.html



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Not signed the pledge to be there yet? Sign it now...
http://www.antiwarassembly.org/index.php/timetable

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On October 6, Let s Make a National Clamor for Peace

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'On October 7, 2011, the United States will have been at war for ten years. Let s mark the occasion by making a national clamor for peace so loud that Congress, the president and big media will have to pay attention.... [T]he press has to cover the anniversary of the war, but these stories are going to be largely written and produced before Friday. The default media narrative will be: America has lost interest in the wars, because of the economy and unemployment, because 'the wars are already winding down,' or some other story that journalists or editors will make up. We have to beat this default media narrative. To beat it, we need to get in front of it.'

http://www.truth-out.org/october-6-lets-make-national-clamor-peace/1317305972


From Information Clearing House



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Die Wirtschaftspolitik in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und in Europa hat versagt und die Menschen müssen dafür bezahlen. Artikel von Paul Craig Roberts in Linke Zeitung vom 28.09.2011 als deutsche Übersetzung des Beitrags vom 26. September 2011 bei foreignpolicyjournal

http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11909&Itemid=1


Aus: LabourNet, 29. September 2011



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By Bohemian

Once upon a time, I woke up and realized the American Dream was an illusion; a myth, a shiny-but-inedible carrot used to trap us into a narrow range of experiences, often referred to as the rat race.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29244.htm



In the Belly of the Beast

By William Bowles

Capitalist 'democracy' is revealed as a total sham, controlled by a political class, united only in self-interest, regardless of the 'party' in power...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29250.htm



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By Ralph Nader

The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the U.S. government around the world may invite a horrific blowback.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29243.htm



Army Tracking Plan: Drones That Never Forget a Face

By Noah Shachtman

Perhaps the idea of spy drones already makes your nervous. If the Army has its way, drones won t just be able to look at what you do. They ll be able to recognize your face - and track you, based on how you look.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29242.htm



Fallout feared if US steps up 'extrajudicial killings'

At this critical juncture, the drone strikes have been causing fear and panic among the people of Fata. Any expansion in drone strikes will further deteriorate the situation adding to public backlash in Pakistan and resulting in more anti-American sentiments.

http://bit.ly/mULNPZ



America s Foreign Policy Fiasco

By Patrick Seale

Now is as good a time as any to ask whether US policy has not created more terrorists than the CIA has managed to kill?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29262.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Robo-death: Made in the USA

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

09/29/11

That a computer brain can become judge, jury, and executioner in the airspace over a foreign country with which the United States is not at war not only raises serious constitutional questions in terms of war powers, it also accepts that collateral damage consisting of killing completely innocent people who happen to be in the vicinity of a suspect is acceptable...

http://bit.ly/oJVFL0



Definitions

Liberty For All
by Robert Anton Wilson

09/28/11

Taking somebody s money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it s taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it s National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it s National Security...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=6669


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama makes Bush look moderate
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/news-media-corruption/obama-makes-bush-look-moderate-.html



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By Noam Chomsky

On September 15, 2011, Noam Chomsky shared remarks on the pitfalls of humanitarian intervention with the Williams College community.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29241.htm



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